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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Now the Music Industry Wants Guitarists to Stop Sharing — The Internet put the music industry and many of its listeners at odds thanks to the popularity of services like Napster and Grokster. Now the industry is squaring off against a surprising new opponent: musicians.
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Sources: AOL Chief Technology Officer Resigns — NEW YORK (Reuters)—AOL chief technology officer Maureen Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal company memorandum.
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Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Free wireless a high-wire act — MetroFi needs to draw enough ads to make service add profits — It used to be that laptop owners were just tickled to find a free wireless Internet hot spot. — But what was once a freebie limited to cafes, hotels and airports is now spreading citywide.
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Farecast, the airfare predictor, launches nationwide — Farecast, the start-up that predicts whether airfares are about to go up or down, has launched nationwide. — We wrote about this useful service in late June, when the company launched a test version covering flights originating from Seattle or Boston.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:Farecast Goes Coast to Coast
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Andrew / Treonauts:
Sprint Treo 700wx: Ready To Launch — According to a Palm Store employee (who took the picture above) Sprint's new Treo 700wx is now 'in stock' but the stores are not yet allowed to sell them. An official release date (within the stores) has not yet been set but considering that they are already …
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
EQO Retools For MySpace, Social Nets — Startups like Vancouver-based EQO, which have been working on getting more support from Skype as a mobile partner, got some bad news recently — competitor iSkoot scooped up a coveted deal to help Skype mobilize. While three-old EQO didn't seem …
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David Hornik / VentureBlog:
TechCrunch August Capital Party — Like a canary in the coal mine breathing its final breath, some are insisting that the gigantic, buzz-engorged TechCrunch August Capital Party that I hosted this past Friday is a sure harbinger of Bubble 2.0. On the one hand, it was a big event.
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
A Quantum Leap for Cell Phones — A new no-buttons handset by Pilotfish and Synaptics signals that mobiles as we know them may soon be a thing of the past — It's likely to evoke the children's song inquiring, "Where's the button?" On Aug. 21, designer Pilotfish and sensor maker Synaptics …
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Crazy Egg Launched - Visualize Visitor Clicks — Crazy Egg, the highly anticipated click tracking service from ACS, launched today. With Crazy Egg, users install a code on their website to track every click a visitor makes on links, forms, advertisements, and flash documents.
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Microsoft could face lawsuit over SQL Server — Timeline severs patent agreement after Microsoft allegedly breached its terms — Microsoft could face another lawsuit from a patent portfolio company over technology within its SQL Server database. — Timeline, of Seattle …
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Robert Young / GigaOM:
Why Steve Jobs should buy YouTube — Last week, I speculated as to why Rupert Murdoch would have a difficult time acquiring YouTube. I also suggested that, with a rumored asking price of $1 billion, NBC Universal was the most likely contender to buy YouTube.
Photojojo:
Photo Widgets - Shuffle Your Pics With Virtual Photo Frames for Your Mac or PC — Your digital camera can save 500 photos on one memory card, your iPod's got 5,000 photos on it, and your computer's packing a cool 25K. — But when was the last time you saw photo #143? Or #2,486?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
"Where's the blog?" in Windows Live Spaces? — Remember those old Wendy's commercials where an old lady yelled "where's the beef?" — Well, let's play "where's the blog?" — First, let's pull up a list of the most recently posted Windows Live Spaces. I did at 8:29 p.m., which is where this list came from.
Associated Press:
Holdout Bands Give In to iTunes — DETROIT — Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
FeedCrier, another way to act fast with RSS and IM — Adam Kalsey, a founder and former CTO of RSS vendor Pheedo, released a new service last night called FeedCrier that makes it easy to receive rapid notification of new items in an RSS feed by IM. The service currently supports only AIM but Kalsey says that will change soon.
Dan / .:UNEASYsilence:.:
Run MacOS 9 on an Intel Mac — Who said you can't use MacOS9 because you have an Intel Mac? It is completely possible with a little bit of tinkering, and a really cool universal application called Sheep Shaver, which came to us via tip from Kazaki. Sheep Shaver is a full speed 'Classic' emulator …
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